climate crisis
Solarpunk humanism: How we dream bigger than despair
Solarpunk offers a potent narrative space for imagining secular worlds to come, and how to get there.
You think weather forecasting is bad now? Welcome to 2070
It's not just the size of the storms that future generations will deal with. It's the terrifying unpredictability.
The climate crisis is not just a future problem. It's here now
Disaster specialist: 'We can't continue to approach disaster preparedness with resources and thinking from a world that had more time'
Go easy on the weatherfolks. It's chaos out there
Weather forecasts are tangible, daily predictions of the future. But it's damn near impossible to get it right—and that's about to get much worse.
We’ve burned past +1°C. Did a 2008 climate prediction get it right?
Sixteen years ago, a documentary predicted how a warming Earth would look at each of six temperature benchmarks. Now we've passed the first.
How is climate anxiety impacting young people?
A landmark survey suggests that climate anxiety—a chronic fear of environmental doom—is taking an outsized psychological toll on the young.
How do we talk about impending doom so that people will listen?
Books like ‘The Ministry for the Future’ offer a useful vocabulary for hashing out solutions to our overheating world.
On ‘tomorrow sorrow’: How we grieve the future today
Humans have the capacity to grieve the world ahead, knowing how much is going wrong today. But tomorrow sorrow can make us stronger actors.
Eco-friendly transportation? The good, the bad, and the pipe dreams
The saying about putting a fox in charge of the hen house grossly underestimates human ingenuity. We are not foxes, and so we have the ability to be much cleverer custodians of institutions we’re still destroying.
How to spare billionaires from terrorist attack
A radical eco-activist group arises in India after a terrible heat wave kills tens of thousands. The Children of Kali are firm in their declaration to the world: Change with us now, or suffer the wrath of Kali.
So this is 90 seconds to midnight
Reading Time: 4 minutes On January 24, the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists officially moved the hands on the Doomsday Clock, which for three quarters of a century has been used to depict humanity’s risk of global disaster from nuclear war. When the clock was first
COP28’s climate cop-out, and what comes next
Reading Time: 11 minutes Ignore the media claims of a “landmark” climate deal. COP28 failed to produce outcomes in word or in action or in funding that would get the world back on track for meeting key climate targets. Now what?